for the third night in a row more clashes between police and residents of brooklyn the demonstrators are demanding change after a sixteen year old is shot and killed by police and update on the clashes ahead. and it's a place where the u.s. sends those they call un triable now there is word of a hunger strike i give mo we'll look at why the prisoners are refusing to eat. and he was being prosecuted by the government for hacking when he took his own life and now the attorneys for aaron swartz are claiming prosecutorial misconduct will update you on this case. it's thursday march fourteenth five pm here in washington d.c.

i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. the protests in brooklyn intensify as new details emerge in the death of kalani gray for the third night angry protesters took to the streets of east flatbush brooklyn. q but you still go if you're going to go tell me that you should kid what you're going to do this was the scene in brooklyn last night you see protesters enraged over the police shooting of the sixteen year old brooklyn resident that happened over the weekend the standoff between protesters and cops turned violent with protesters hurling bottles and other objects police say one officer was hit and wounded by a brick forty six people were arrested and the increasingly hostile demonstrations come after an autopsy revealed police shot the teen seven times three of those shots in the back police say gray pointed a gun at them before they opened fire but i witness is dispute this for on the chaos in brooklyn i was joined earlier by r t correspondent. there's

a clearly boiling point that this community is reaching everybody's very angered the crowds. broke out into riots for the past three nights are very in raged of course becoming more enraged when finding out through an autopsy that gray was shot seven times three of those bullets hitting him in the back by two plainclothes police officers this angered a community community that feels that it is been targeted repeatedly for years by the new york city police department between stop and frisk or the fact that it is a predominately black community many they say teenagers have fallen victim to police shootings over the course of the past years and they feel that that this needs to stop this must stop they say that they were trying over the past years to work with the new york city police department but now it's beyond a dialogue and conversation which is why you see so many people flooding the streets displaying a lot of frustration and

a lot of anger over the fatal shooting of this sixteen year old boy that was standing in front of his best friend's home and many say that he did not point a gun at the police officers that is what authorities are alleging that the these two up plainclothes officers shot at the money gray after he allegedly pointed a gun at them but friends and family of this sixteen year old boy who passed on saturday who was killed saturday say that he is not the type of teenager that would ever do such a thing now of forty six people were arrested last night can you tell us what led up to all those arrests well when there was a scene unfolding that was quiet you know somewhat of a mayhem you had protesters it started out as a peaceful vigil for kamandi great but then the part of those that were taking part in the vigil broke off and stormed the streets there were those that were throwing bottles and bricks and garbage cans there were police dressed in. riot gear that

were slamming men and women down on the ground spraying them with pepper spray before arresting them as you already said police officer one according to authorities was hit in the head with a brick and so also according to reports one of the forty six people arrested was sr this is a this is a scene that's unfolding worse and worse as each day passes look i was in east flop bush just yesterday and i was speaking to people on the streets and they said to me this is not a story that is going to go away it's not just going to stop the community and not just that community we have to say that this is this is a frustration that spreads throughout new york city of the way that the police treats treats young teenagers treats blacks and hispanics treat minorities they feel they're being targeted and it seems that they it's reached a boiling point as you can tell by the scenes that we're showing. mainstream media

coverage i mean on the surface to see if this is a big story somebody was shot and killed forty six people arrested in the ensuing riots do people feel like they're being ignored well to be quite honest with you as i have to say because i'm here in new york city the local news outlets have been covering the story they have it's not a story that has been ignored by local news outlets i have not seen this story reported at least i haven't seen extensively on the major news networks or the cable channels why they're choosing not to report on this story is you know an answer a question they have to answer i mean it's a very important story and it's become you know a story of clash and violence and conflicts and it really puts it into perspective the amount of distrust that exists between certain communities in new york city and the new york city police department i mean the relationship is reached an all time low now we should mention that money agrees mother carol gregg for the first time

spoke to the. media a few hours ago she held a press conference she was dressed in all black she was wearing sunglasses she said on the record she does not believe that her son pointed a gun at police officers she described the sorrow and the pain that she felt when she had to pick out a casket for her sixteen year old son but she also says that she does not approve of the violence that's being displayed or shown in the streets she's asking for people to have her strange but she did say the mother of the money grave that she will seek justice in the death of her son and i understand there are a he was able to speak to some of these protesters residents over there in brooklyn what did they have to say that's right i spoke to a lot of them and most of those that i spoke with are extremely concerned for their families they everyone repeated the same thing over and over again that they that the relationship between the police officers and the citizens living you know in certain parts of brooklyn is not a good relationship and they believe that the families living all throughout

certain parts of brooklyn are of the victim of police brutality and take a listen they need to do is any gun violence in his neighborhood concerned in police. innocent teenagers and killing them they're not injuring them they're not shooting to injure as the should be. a better reason a police force they would know that ok if i shot this individual in his car for a new star he can live in peace charges for whatever he's been accused or. judge an executioner in the middle of the street and a lot of teenagers are clearly because of these actions certainly a very tense situation over there marina thank you for staying on top of this story that was artie's very important idea. those within the community continue to speak out in organized spreading the latest through updates on twitter and facebook and are they succeeding in making this case go viral to talk about the online efforts laurie harshness joins me now from new york hi there laurie so what i ask you how

has social media helped to get the story out yet so i live in brooklyn not too far away from that so i was sitting on my couch when things started to really ask and i had no idea that anything was going on except when i checked my twitter feed and it was just blowing up about brooklyn and i was like what's going on so they were the first to tell me about it and i live you know not too far away about a mile away and people were tweeting videos and they were tweeting what was it your media was absolutely silent on it so that's where i was getting all the information yeah that we have some tweets here wanted to read them if we can put them up their . theories. and my p.d. declarative portion of flatbush a frozen zone i.e. media are not allowed in and people can be subjected to arrest and that has the hash tag brooklyn protest another one of their media reporting on a new pope for twenty straight hours while helicopters and riot gear are deployed

on the streets of new york and the last one we have there from occupy wall street new york brooklyn took to the streets for the third straight night when will we be heard so laurie do you think you had mentioned that mainstream coverage of this story is scarce and do appears to be a pretty big story somebody should was shot and killed forty six people arrested so do you think people kind of maybe feel like they're being ignored in social media is the way to get the story out. yeah especially when you have a kid that die it's such a tragedy it's so awful when you have a sixteen year old that dies in your community you want the world to know you want everyone to know that this tragedy happened you want the facts out there and so of course the community feels like they're being jilted by the mainstream media so i think more and more people are realizing that you know it's a grassroots effort if you really want to get the word out if you want to mobilize people and get the word out that mainstream media is not the place to go there you

don't expect them to show up do it yourself through social media you know it's interesting i know that this has been covered locally but for one reason or another it hasn't been covered on a national scale i want to ask you. does this kind of signify this one incident kind of signify an underlying tension that was already there that already existed between the police and the local community is it is the story deeper than the shooting. yes and i think that feeds into why the mainstream media might not be covering it right because the story isn't that sensational it's the cops versus teens that are running around with or without guns but it's a story that we hear across the country it doesn't have that juice that the mainstream media wants so that's why they're not covering it and yet it is a typical story it's been happening over and over and over again so yes it definitely signifies a bigger problem a bigger issue and to me when i see this happening so often and i know

a lot of police officers officers personally and i've been assisted by a lot of n.y.p.d. officers i'm not going to sit here and say that all and my p.d. is bad there are bad cops but but clearly something is going on between cops and citizens that they're supposed to protect and no one is analyzing where is this war being fabricated from why are we going at each other's throats when none of us are read the you know the cots aren't rich we're not rich why are we fighting with each other and that story is clearly being ignored and it's interesting because this this story isn't really getting much mainstream national press at least but we see stories like trayvon martin for some reason that story blew up do you have any idea loria why that is. you know well that had stand your ground right that had like a little bit of a hook that national media could get into and you could explain it all and have the sensationalism this is just you know a city kid had

a gun and got shot and that happens so often you know i think that that mainstream media is ignoring it because it's like well where's the sensationalism there that's it's an everyday situation and we're just going to you know ignore it but it's unfortunate because these kinds of things should be brought up you know why do sixteen year olds have guns and why are the cops afraid of us and why are we afraid of the cops there's all these questions out there that are just noise i think what makes this this story unique is the backlash that we're seeing in the ensuing the riots and dozens and dozens of people getting arrested laura you said that you lived in brooklyn and you've kind of been seeing this go on first hand what do you think it will take for it's been three straight nights now for for the riots to and for the community to come back to some kind of normalcy i'm a see i don't know i think that you know there's a lot of people right now that like to jump on the group the cops bandwagon and so

because there are cops involved a lot of people from outside of the community that are coming there to riot to do things that have nothing to do with getting the word out about this poor child that was killed and that unfortunately is leading to this violence and you know people knocking over stores and all this horrible stuff that really just muddies the issue so you know i don't know what's going to i don't think it's just going to it's just going to peter out and be one of those really unfortunate untold stories and it's a tragedy it's totally. yes we're going to have to wait and see how it does play out to laurie appreciate you weighing in that was lori harmfulness from the resident on that. and of a now into the case of the late internet activist aaron swartz just yesterday attorney for the defense alleged prosecutorial misconduct the defense believes federal prosecutor steven heyman withheld key evidence from them also ideas sure whether or not the government obtained wore a swartz's computer and thumb drive properly so what does this mean for the case

moving forward chief political correspondent for c n n declan mccullagh joins me now hi there declan so aaron swartz as a lawyer is accusing the prosecutor of misconduct what kind of wrongdoing is he accused of exactly. it's basically withholding evidence and prosecutors have a lot of responsibilities one of them is to turnover was a close call for torrie evidence that shows the defendant. actually didn't commit the crime here she's charged with or evidence of prosecutorial misconduct and this is what aaron swartz is lawyers are asking they're asking the department of justice to investigate and the u.s. attorney's office in boston that coordinated the prosecution saying that this evidence this shows the prosecutors may not have been playing by the rules should have been turned over and what kind of evidence are we talking what kind of evidence a prosecutor steven hayman is his name withhold or if he accused of withholding

right away though this is i'm i don't know if there is a smoking gun there i mean it's true that the prosecutors in boston have a habit of going after high profile acting cases it's true that as far as we've been able to determine the say the saudis would not have thrown the book at aaron they would have just been probation or something similar but we have the answer your question is evidence of who searched and who had control of the parents laptop why was that the secret service it was the local police and different rules apply and so if it was a secret service then maybe they didn't follow the rules and should have been maybe that could have in theory led to the case being thrown out or some of the evidence that they are saying been distorted this is the standard for him a doctrine for their missile that he obtained in violation of the law it may not be able to be used as we know the case was not there on out and prosecutors were going out there and with full force requesting

a lot of jail time he was looking at when he unfortunately had life passed away the swartz case and the aftermath has really put the issue of prosecutorial overreach into the spotlight is this an example of prosecutors overstepping their boundary it's. well i have all of the ways the stuff on the. news dot com it appeared yesterday about the history of the u.s. anti hacking law called the computer fraud and abuse act was used to go after aaron . this is the centerpiece of an indictment and it was originally and acted in an anti hacker panic in the one nine hundred eighty s. those killed by the movie war came they came out in the summer of mice ninety three by the time the congress came back from a summer recess the other six different anti hiking bills introduced was really designed to go after you know intrusions into norad mainframes that could cause world war three but it was amended over time it was expanded it was broad it was made in different terms of penalties and so we're looking at up to fifty years in

prison for life seven or eight given his lack of criminal record is prosecutorial misconduct and i think probably the better answer is this is this happens all the time this is the case we actually found out about because it was relatively high profile so you're basically saying that the that these laws are being used in a way that. maybe it's not against the law or maybe it's not overreach in terms of the law but. it's the laws themselves that allow for this to happen inside in our justice system that i think that's fair i mean listen it this way if you have an incredibly broad and begun long and the c.f.a. anti hacking laws is both broad and big i mean what is often offer isaak mean i mean is that looking at my spouse's account with her permission in violation of you know terms of service i mean mazie maybe maybe not the prosecutors of the

department justice indicted a woman who lied about her age on my space i mean maybe just tacky maybe that's wrong maybe a seasonable a moral in this case but should it be a federal crime i mean people law on facebook all the time about their age or way to mean should this be some. becomes literally a federal offense this is not what congress intended when acting this in the 1980's and so there is this push to fix the law but the department of justice has resisted this and it has a very good track record of drilling these sort of pro civil liberties measures so i don't think congress is going to do anything quickly though a lot of questions and a lot of calls for change at least in the wake of that aaron swartz appreciate you declan coming on that was declan mccullagh the chief political correspondent at c. net. oil have seen more information labeled top secret under recent administration and some here in washington have taken notice and are demanding changes to the way information is classified organizations like the brennan center say that too many secrets there and democratic not in the democratic discussion and national security

so count this culture of secrecy change artie's meghan lopez reports. it's one of the biggest questions surrounding government transparency how to strike a balance between protecting national secrets and respecting the public's right to know if sunshine we care in washington and for journalists that means a chance to come together to discuss the collective troubles they've had in collecting government information for the government itself as a chance to look at the policies that are in place and try to decide on a new ways to become even more transparent now although we have actually seen a lot of progress in terms of transparency the overall consensus is that there isn't enough of it classifying documents is the time tested way to protect sensitive information and classification is in effect a risk analysis you never you're not so much worried about what will happen as what might happen classification advocates argue that it's important because nobody wants to be the person who's responsible for blowing the cover of an asset and

possibly leading to the yes that's definitely a minimum the last of the information that aspect of that fear has actually led to a system of overclassification and a public that is oftentimes left in the dark with the ones who make history often reshaping it in their favor use of the english language as well when we choose to unleash the power to your pilots in the name of their ordinary. citizens where you have to extrajudicial. becomes we're where torture becomes enhanced after nine eleven the amount of information considered to be too sensitive to be safe for public consumption swelled it's out of control unfortunately last year there were ninety two million decisions to classify information it's it's really it's hard to know exactly what the right number of of

classified documents is but that that seems excessive by any measure a massive government backlog coupled with a huge increase in the volume of incoming data has over. well md agency's accountability is another issue americans have witnessed one whistleblower after another be prosecuted for leaking government secrets but as for those who have participated in overclassifying not a single person has been punished indian advocates for declassification say it shouldn't be perceived as a problem of people acting as evil e book culture in your ocracy until that mentality changes sunshine we will continue to be overshadowed by government silence in washington meghan lopez r t now do a mass hunger strike happening and guantanamo bay lawyers say presidents are going hungry and protest to the military's decision to take away personal belongings including korans meanwhile a spokesperson says at least five detainees are being force fed lawyers are now calling for the commander of the camp to put the hunger strike to an end for more

on what's behind this coming to seoul a blogger with firedoglake joins us now hi kevin so what do we know about why prisoners are going on this mass hunger strike generally what we know is that their personal items are limited about the prisoners are allowed to have in their cell specifically with regards to having a corrupt they believe that their crimes have been violated and that guards have been coming in and doing searches or you know doing things to them that they don't believe you stay through do we know how many detainees are on strike right now. i don't know if we have an exact number but we know that the majority of camp six is according to lawyers engaged in a hunger strike i think the number is above one hundred right now i'm not but i'm not positive on that and and i think significantly you know this is the most

major camp at guantanamo and the people who can engage in hunger strikes seem to be engaging in them and the ones that are the weakest who are ill they're not engaged but those are very few number of people ok so it relation to the population there pretty significant amount of detainees are participating what are they demanding what the demand act is actually incredibly outrageous when you consider the fact that most of the people in those camps are going to be released and they're effectively being held indefinite detention and i think now what i read from one of the lawyers foremen was that the detainees were like some measure where they could have some protection and no the guards aren't going to violate their qur'an i think i even saw something about maybe getting their kuranda like an

electronic reader and then there would be this issue because the guards claim that they're hiding messages inside the pages of the koran so that they can have communication with other prisoners and the guards don't like that so they are suggesting was maybe go to an electronic kharaj so that there is this problem. is unlikely that this tactic will work. i don't know but as i as i said i don't think it's a reasonable given the fact that these are men who have we need to think of this in perspective there are around eighty people who have been cleared for release by all the officials you have a stake in whether these people are released or not the obama administration cleared these people for release from guantanamo they're completely innocent they should be relocated or resettled to the countries where they're from and there's no hope of them being released a lot of them are thinking now that just is the only way out of guantanamo and so

for the guards to start a spy and respect their religious. give them this freedom to just have their qur'an not be violated that doesn't seem like an outrageous request to me so it sounds like the detainees feel like this hunger strike as a last resort i think it's a trigger. that it's a choice that triggers the way of the guards of been treating them finally set them off because it's become hopeless inside the prison most of the people there who should be released do not see any hope of being released and i should say civically that there's a number of people who are give money but they're not allowed to be released because obama has opened up a covert drone war in yemen and it's become increasingly unstable and they're not sure that they can trust the government if they were to really turn these people to their country so those people are stuck because the obama administration started the drone war the prison on the other hand is saying that. they're kind of to their

defense saying that this isn't their fault and some of these people that they are now force feeding. well you want even acknowledge the scale of the hunger strike they've minimized that it's much smaller than the lawyers. claim and so that is why actually lawyers today sent a letter to chuck hagel the head of the pentagon now and and want him to acknowledge what is going on and perhaps do something about the worsening situation some of these people who are engaged in hunger strike could very well die and that should be prevented if possible and lastly i want to ask you a is this a common practice in guantanamo bay among detainees to go on this hunger to go and hunger strike was one of the only ways that powerless people can actually resist when they are imprisoned putting their bodies on the line and saying that they're going to go through this there's not much else that they can do these people are

being charged in many cases so they are going to go to trial they may not get to go into a court room and challenge that and i said multiple times they are going to be released so these are the people this is the way that the powerless back and that's what you see in hunger strikes have been common at guantanamo and when they have one concessions from the military it's been through hundreds and tristan calvin appreciate you shedding some light on this story that was. a blogger with firedoglake. well drone seems to be the preferred spy tool of the day and while the new tool is controversial turns out the cia has been quite creative in the past even using pets as spy agents it's all details in this book entitled frankenstein's cat cuddling up to biotech's brave new beasts it details the cia's project in one thousand in the one nine hundred sixty s. where a veterinarian turned a cat into a high tech spy tool this was done by implanting

a microphone and radio transmitter into the feline's head the hope was that these cats that put the totally innocent could sit near foreign officials and ease drop turns out that the cats weren't so interested in hanging around government officials but the idea to turn animals into spying machines is still around and agency of the department of defense is now working on making cyborg and robotic insects. and we're going to check in with abby now because her show breaking the set is coming up in thirty minutes let's see what she's got cookin the agenda today i have a what's going on liz so did you know that we bailed out bank of america again. again and again early this is the way it is now every time that they're in financial trouble we just go to socialize their losses apparently there was just some secret deal made with the new york federal reserve bank with bank of america totally under reported use rates of talk to max keiser because a report about this and just why this is the new why are these banks too big to

prosecute or jail going off that we're going to talk about you have photos on if i had flying out of the big leap there i know always an interesting topic and just yeah exactly and i think there's a huge majority of people in this country have seen them and it's way more mainstream than we'd like to think it doesn't we're talking about things that could possibly be drones or or government technologies so we'll get into that also to talk about the total dysfunctionality of the corporate media covering the sequester cuts seems like they're more concerned about white house tours losing money than they are about the poorest in this country and how badly they'll be affected from that all that more of course coming up next break in the senate i think that that's coming up in just a half hour but that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered you can check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash our team america our website our t. dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter is wall.